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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Audio CDs (Junior Classics)
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Product Description
Floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and murderers, whilst being chased by Huck's evil, drunken father who is after Huck's treasure. It is a trip that you will never tire of. With music by Janacek.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #37727 in Books
- Published on: 1995-10-31
- Released on: 2005-01-03
- Number of discs: 2
- Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Binding: Audio CD
- 38 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.co.uk Review
A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a fuller understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.
Synopsis
Floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and murderers, whilst being chased by Huck's evil, drunken father who is after Huck's treasure. It is a trip that you will never tire of. With music by Janacek.
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Customer Reviews
An Unvarnished Look at the Human Soul
For such a simple story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn often proves to be elusive for its readers. Here are some guideposts to look out for:
This story is told by Huck, and is not in the classic shape of a novel. Rather it is a precursor to Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past, where other great writers attempted to capture the essence of our internal dialogue.
Huck is also hiding a lot from himself. You as the reader can quickly see through him though. He is trying to put a brave and positive face on a very dangerous situation. We all do that.
Huck also has to face himself before the book ends. What really is important? We can all spout a lot of moral talk, but what we do is critical.
If we lived in Huck's times, we would also see that there was an emormous moral dilemma. The rules of humanity were often not applied to black people. You could choose to go along and feel like a hypocrite (if you thought about what you were doing), or you could do the right thing. Sensitive people of that day often found it hard to do the right thing. If your neighbors were open-minded and you lived in the North, you might do one thing. If your neighbors were slaveholderes and lived in the South, you might do another.
Also, think about the trip down the river as an analogy for going through life. How will it turn out if you just let your direction go with the current?
This is an amazing book, brilliant, really heart capturing!
This is one of the very best books. Huck Finn goes through so many trials and tribulations down the Mississippi River with his black slave friend Jim, lying and stealing and running into strange people. It is the best book I have ever read!
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's classic, "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn" is a truely amazing read that appeals to the reader on all levels. It's language, difficult to grasp adds to the make-up and the bulk of this amazing read. Twain's writing draws the reader into living the adventures with Huck and Jim as the journey down the river. The reality of the characters and additional humor adds to the acessibility of the novel to the reader and adds to it's appeal.
